As an IT guy, I need to be using Windows for my day to day desktop environment as there are many vendor specific applications I need to run on a day to day basis which simply aren’t available on unix variants. However, that doesn’t stop me from wanting to run Linux applications when I’m on […]
Yes, you heard right, Linux fans. But it’s not as simple as all that. Today I’m going to be playing around with the new version of ACE management server from VMWare. As you probably know, they’re all for running normal operating systems in completely abnormal ways, and ACE lets us do even more abnormal things […]
If you view irrationale on a iPhone, storm, droid or similar, then our new mobile skin should make things much more comfortable for you. Enjoy!
Building a Linux server is a fairly simple affair. If you’re anything like me, you had some old hardware lying around which you shoved into a cheap case, stuck a copy of Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Whatever on it, and bob’s your uncle. But once it’s up and running, should you dedicate a monitor/keyboard/mouse to a computer you barely […]
Building a hackintosh, an Apple computer which uses off-the-shelf hardware, can be a pretty daunting task. In the past I’ve struggled with confusing walk-throughs, been frustrated with shitty custom builds of OSX and generally thrown in the towel after about 4 hours of abject failure. But all that changed when I found this article. All […]
So now that we’ve chosen to go with Solaris and use NFS for our filesystem, let’s consider how we’re going to use ZFS to best suit our needs. So let’s say that I have four 1Tb disks lying around which I want to thow into my new file server. At some point in the future, […]
At the time of writing, the release buid version of OpenSolaris is 111b, and the latest dev build is 124. To upgrade, open a terminal and run the following commands: user@opensolaris:~$ pfexec su – root@opensolaris:~# pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org root@opensolaris:~# pkg image-update
After yesterday’s guide on setting up a Solaris NAS, I figure the next logical questions would be: How do I change out disks which have failed? How do I change out smaller disks for larger ones? Can I add more disks to my pool? All three questions are quite easily answered, and can, for the […]
After a few requests, I’ve decided to put together a simple howto for building a home NAS with Opensolaris. The main reasons to choose Opensolaris are simple: Common PC hardware is all you need. No propriatary disk bay system. Gigabit Ethernet. Well, providing your network card and switch support it. Cheap, redundant disk arrays with […]
Perhaps it’s just that I’m tired of the old look. Perhaps it’s that I’ve been influenced by some of the awesome typographic sites out there on the net. Perhaps I’ve watched the film “Helvetica” one too many times. But I think it’s time I re-kerjiggered this joint. Any suggestions?
irrationale 